First and foremost, my most heartfelt love and thanks to Amity Alize, Sahra Kent, and Roxxanne Shelaby for all of their help, support, and inspiration. Thank you for believing in this project!! Special shout-out to Amy Hoffman Parrakat, whose field trip to the Field Museum in Chicago sparked the idea for this website.

Thanks, too, to all the dance teachers who have invited me into their classrooms to give my presentation on the “Tales of the Nightclub Era of Boston Belly Dance”. I am grateful to be able to present my work to new and upcoming dancers.

Many people of the “Nightclub Era” have helped significantly by sitting down with me and sharing their stories, knowledge, and photos of those times. They are listed below. Not only were they of great help to the research, but this enables me to honor their contributions to the “Nightclub Era”.

Musicians

George and Fadia Chamoun

Prof. Leon Janikian

Udi Joe Kouyoumjian

Marty Yaffee

Dancers

• Adonna (Donna Agnew)

• Adriana

• Bathsheba (Barbara Brandt)

• Dvorah (Deb Yaffee)

• Kasim (Straton Doulos)

• Katia

• Shadia (Christine Tohme)

• Shazar (Judith Sayegh)

• Tahruz Laleli (Elisabeth Clark)

• Zbeide (Helen Perry)